Humans interact with the oceans in diverse and profound ways. The scope, magnitude,
footprint and ultimate cumulative impacts of human activities can threaten ocean ecosystems
and have changed over time, resulting in new challenges and threats to marine ecosystems.
A fundamental gap in understanding how humanity is affecting the oceans is our limited
knowledge about the pace of change in cumulative impact on ocean ecosystems from
expanding human activities–and the patterns, locations and drivers of most significant …